Number 47
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The best we can hope for at this time is that a compulsive liar has been lying about many of his darkest campaign promises. But that is hope rather than expectation.
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Senator Burston Goes To Washington
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"Everyone who voted for Donald Trump, supports Donald Trump, or condones his outlaw behaviour will bear the shame of this dreadful episode forever."
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Elvis & Nixon (2016)
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Today's Haka brought to you by the Tall Blacks
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Before their game against Team USA in the FIBA World Cup on September 2 2014, the New Zealand men's basketball team, the Tall Blacks, did what all New Zealand national teams should do... perform the Haka.
Judging by the looks on the Americans' faces it can't be long before we see a USA equivalent... surely?
USA won the game 98-71.
Only in a Merica
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Yesterday was the 234th anniversary of the collective breakaway of thirteen British colonies from King George III's empire. On New York's Coney Island they know how to celebrate. With the help of that responsible sporting powerhouse Major League Eating.
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Afghanistan beats USA. Send in the ICC.
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"QUESTION: ... This is about sports. Afghanistan cricket team defeated American U.S. cricket team in Dubai in the Twenty/20 match. Cricket is not very popular here, but it is very popular in Afghanistan. Any comments on that? People are very happy in Afghanistan about this, defeating a U.S. team in cricket.
MR. CROWLEY: Well, I am not familiar with the result. But certainly we always are good sports, and congratulate the victors."
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The end of civilisation as we know it
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If Civilisation As We Know It were to come to an end this week, William Shatner's recital of Sarah Palin's departure from politics would be the perfect full stop...
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Bart King recognition gains momentum
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My 2005 campaign on these pages for Philadelphia all-rounder J.Barton King's nomination as the Greatest American of All Time has gathered support, albeit three years after the poll closed and was won by an obscure mid-western baseball commentator.
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But wait, there's more
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From the land that gave you the Second Amendment, comes this special offer from a car dealership in Butler, Missouri. Buy a new car from Max Motors and get a free handgun.
"I’m telling them to get the semiautomatic because it holds more rounds," the dealership's general manager, Walter Moore, told the Kansas City Star. He's not talking about the car.
Video from MSNBC.
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Texans with nothing better to do
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It's official. The compact fluorescent lightbulb is the Official Bulb of the State of Texas.
The San Antonio Business Journal takes up the story.
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